Echo Lake SnotelECLC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.6 mi away/10,600 ft/1,056 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Guanella Pass
Guanella Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Clear Creek County, Colorado, at 11,656 ft18°
44°/16°
Clear·
Feels like 8°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNW
Now. Guanella Pass is 18° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 8°. The dew point is 15°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° by 10 PM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 79): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 50°, and the coolest Monday, near 44°. Rain is possible Thursday (36%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
79Air quality
88%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
18feels8
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4416
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5023
12mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4827
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
4428
18%
Tue
Oct 20
4628
24%
Wed
Oct 21
4729
11%
Thu
Oct 22
4531
36%
18°
44°16°
50°23°
48°27°
44°28°
46°28°
47°29°
45°31°
As of 12:00 AM in Guanella Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Guanella Pass
Index 79, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 41 miles off.
79Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)79Moderate-
- Ozone28Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Guanella Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.61 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.61in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Guanella Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 11,656 ft
- County
- Clear Creek County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.5950° N
- Longitude
- 105.7111° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Guanella Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW5575GW5575
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/12,322 ft/666 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
070E23175RWS1MED - 0.1 mi W of U CO US CDOTCO191
Beside a road/11.6 mi away/8,287 ft/3,369 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/14.0 mi away/12,441 ft/785 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/31.4 mi away/9,828 ft/1,828 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Cabin CreekGCRC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/10,026 ft/1,630 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Georgetown 1.8 SCO-CC-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/9,669 ft/1,987 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Cabin Creek (GCRC2), 4.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Guanella Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Silver Plumetown, 7 mi
- Georgetowntown, 8 mi
- Montezumatown, 8 mi
- Arapahoe Basinsurveyed ski area, 9 mi
- Loveland Passfeature, 10 mi
- Empiretown, 12 mi
- Loveland Ski Areaski area, 12 mi
- Downieville-Lawson-Dumontcommunity, 13 mi
- Keystonesurveyed ski area, 13 mi
- Keystonecommunity, 13 mi
- Blue Valleycommunity, 14 mi
- Berthoud Passfeature, 14 mi
Mountain passes near Guanella Pass
- Argentine Pass4 mi
- Webster Pass8 mi
- Juniper Pass9 mi
- Loveland Pass10 mi
- Empire Pass10 mi
- Kenosha Pass13 mi
- Mestaa’ėhehe Pass14 mi
- Georgia Pass14 mi